Dirac resonances as non-self-adjoint eigenvalues

Abstract

We consider resonances of (not necessarily self-adjoint) three-dimensional Dirac operators, defined as poles of the meromorphic continuation of the resolvent. We prove that a region of the resonance set can be characterized by the discrete spectrum of distorted Dirac operators, with preservation of multiplicities. As an application, we prove Kramer's degeneracy under time-reversal symmetry.